9 Stoic rules for a better life:
1. Wake up early
2. Focus on effort, not results
3. Read every day
4. Strict with yourself, forgiving of others
5. Seek out challenges
6. Stay a student
7. Cut toxic people out of your life
8. Think about death
9. Focus on what you can control
10 High Performance Habits
1. Win the morning
2. Do hard things
3. Embrace feedback
4. Learn from failure
5. Choose your attitude
6. Do one more
7. Live on purpose, with purpose
8. Recommit every day
9. Be patient
10. Fear no one
Think on purpose.
Train on purpose.
Eat on purpose.
Prepare on purpose.
Play on purpose.
Recover on purpose.
Respond on purpose.
Live on purpose.
Do what you do on purpose, with purpose.
Stoic reminders from Marcus Aurelius:
1. Your task is to be good
2. If it’s humanly possible, you can do it
3. Most people are doing the best they can
4. The obstacle IS the way
5. Applause and fame are worthless
6. Life is short
7 Stoic DON’Ts:
1/ Complain...not even to yourself
2/ Talk more than you listen
3/ Tie your identity to your possessions
4/ Compare yourself to others
5/ Suffer imagined troubles
6/ Judge others
7/ Be all about business
The edge is in the inputs.
The person who consumes from better sources, gets better thoughts. The person who asks better questions, gets better answers. The person who builds better habits, gets better results.
It’s not the outcomes. It’s the inputs.
The most successful people consistently do the thing they’re great at. They do it on easy days and they do it on hard days. They do it when they feel like it and when they don’t.
How do they do it? They create a ritual.
What’s in your control:
- what you do
- what you say
- what you think
What isn’t:
- what other people do
- what other people say
- what other people think
"10 Ways to Be Mentally Tough:
1. Do hard things
2. Try your hardest
3. Let go of your ego
4. Learn from everything
5. Leave your comfort zone
6. Be consistent and coachable
7. Stay poised and positive
8. Find solutions, not excuses
9. Fight through adversity
10. Finish strong"
Fill the Fire truck campaign again this year. Collecting school supplies for area students in need. Target goal is to fill 1,000 back packs full of school supplies. Thank you Bubba for coming and helping!!!
5 keys to happiness:
1. Do good for others
2. Find beauty in the mundane
3. Focus on what you can control
4. Memento mori (life is short)
5. Love the people that are in your life while they're in your life
5 Stoic lessons from Seneca:
1. We suffer more in imagination than in reality
2. Associate only with people who improve you
3. The greatest remedy for anger is delay
4. Value your time more than your possessions
5. Death is not in the distant future. We are dying every day
This is the way to improvement: Incremental, consistent, humble, persistent work. Your business, your book, your career, your body—it doesn’t matter—you build them with little things, day after day.